Sometimes when you get back from vacation you have to work on getting skinny. I was on a short trip through western Colorado this past weekend, and picked up this cheap schwinn in Montrose. I believe it is a 1948 dx. It has mostly mismatched parts and a fair amount of damage. There’s a pretty serious weld behind the head tube. I’ll grind it down and see if I need to repair it. The stays need to be straightened out a bit as well as the dropouts. The chainguard mount has also been broken off. Kind of cool that it has a bicycle license from 1959 from the town I bought it in. Under the paint you can’t just make out the planes and trains headbadge.
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